To those of you who are still using Blogger’s default design for the comment section, don’t you think that it’s about time for you to spruce it up a little? Today’s featured tutorial is from Paul Crowe, which will teach you how t customize your comment section by changing its color and also adding a ribbon to the blog author’s comment to make it distinguishable from the rest of the other comments.

The design is said to have been influenced by Pham Duy’s code and all it takes is a bit of CSS. The difference between Pham and Paul’s method is that Pham directly pastes the code into the template’s HTML, while Paul pastes it using Blogger’s ‘Add CSS’ option under the ‘Advanced’ settings, which is what we will be following here.

The names should now have a pinkish color to it and the author’s comment should have a ribbon on the top-right corner of the box labeled ‘Author’ with the same color. If you wish to change the color, simply change d80556 to any of the following:

1e05d8 (for blue)

56d805 (for green)

And the background-image URL (highlight in red) for the ribbon accordingly to:

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